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New Wrinkle in Town-Duryea’s Feud

The outside counsel representing East Hampton Town in its long-running dispute with Duryea’s Lobster Deck on Fort Pond Bay in Montauk asked a New York State Supreme Court justice last week to vacate a 2019 order allowing a certificate of occupancy for the restaurant. Recently posted photos showing indoor seating led to a charge that it has “illegally converted a limited outdoor food service establishment into a full-blown restaurant and event space.”

Sep 21, 2023

Nightclub Replacement Nears Approval

After opening its Sept. 13 meeting with a quote from a Grateful Dead song, the East Hampton Town Planning Board revisited three applications that they’ve discussed multiple times, making sure they were ready for a vote.

Sep 21, 2023

Police & Courts

Capt. Jeff Erickson, who has been with the East Hampton Village police since he graduated from the police academy in 1991, was named acting chief of the department at Friday’s village board meeting.

Sep 21, 2023

On Saturday afternoon, Harbormaster Joseph Vish responded to a report of an unknown material — what looked to be either a pile of 10 “horse manure patties” or “granola cookies with hard candies pushed inside them,” according to the official report — in the parking lot of Sammy’s Beach. He cleaned up the mess.

Sep 21, 2023

Town and county police are seeking the public’s help in finding three men who they say engaged in criminal mischief at Marshall and Sons Service Center on Sept. 2.

Sep 21, 2023

Government

An amended town zoning code that would reduce allowable house size, clearing of vegetation, and lot coverage will get a public hearing on Oct. 5.

Sep 21, 2023

The East Hampton Town Board looked favorably on a proposal to install three small “stations” in coastal areas within the town that are meant to document site changes such as sea level rise and changing coastlines.

Sep 21, 2023

More than 600 “cobra-head” streetlights and around 10 historical streetlight fixtures will soon be converted to light-emitting diodes, or LEDs, reducing both costs and energy consumption in East Hampton Town by around 60 percent, the town board was told on Tuesday.

Sep 21, 2023

The New York League of Conservation Voters has endorsed Ann Welker for Suffolk County Legislature in the Second District.

Sep 21, 2023

Villages

After a Hot Summer, a Long March

South Fork residents were among an estimated 75,000 people who participated in Sunday’s March to End Fossil Fuels in Manhattan, at the conclusion of the hottest summer since global record-keeping of temperatures began and amid multiple signals around the world that climate change is happening now and getting worse. “I’m here personally because my granddaughter is also here, and I want a livable planet for her and her generation, and, in fact, all living beings,” said Francesca Rheannon of Springs, who is on East Hampton Town’s Energy and Sustainability Advisory Committee.

Sep 21, 2023

Summer 2023 Had Its Ups and Downs

How busy was the summer of 2023 on the South Fork? There are some interesting metrics out there. Wastewater is one: The amount treated in Sag Harbor during June, July, and August was up roughly six percent over 2022 levels. On East Hampton Village beaches, lifeguards recorded 376 saves. But summer rentals were down on the real estate market, and certain restaurants experienced less traffic than they'd hoped.

Sep 21, 2023

57 Years Later, Lola Comes Home to Bridgehampton

When it arrives at the Bridgehampton Museum on Sunday for display, one particular car, a Lola T70 Eagle, will have come full circle, as race cars tend to do. Fifty-seven years ago, the legendary driver Dan Gurney drove it to win the 1966 Can Am race in Bridgehampton. On Sunday, the historically significant car will be on view for the public for two hours only — 9 to 11 a.m. — during the museum’s annual Cars and Coffee event.

Sep 21, 2023

Long Island Books

Arts

The Tree Man of Amagansett

The wood sculptures of Jonathan Shlafer range from tall and sinewy to squat and abstract, tribalistic totems to biomorphic forms, all raw and unfinished, allowed to carry on a dialogue with nature’s weathering forces.

Sep 20, 2023

The Hamptons International Film Festival's full schedule has interviews of Paul Simon and Todd Haynes, Bradley Cooper’s “Maestro," and much more.

Sep 19, 2023

The current exhibition at the Southampton Arts Center, "Change Agents: Women Collectors Shaping the Art World," is a many layered thing. If ever an exhibition shared a multiplicity of viewpoints, backgrounds, and ideas, this would be it, even if its curators' focus is narrowed to artwork procured solely by women.

Sep 20, 2023

The Sag Harbor Song Festival will bring six young opera stars to The Church in Sag Harbor for three programs of opera, operetta, musical theater, and more, with music ranging from Mozart and Verdi to Sondheim and Sonny Bono.

Sep 20, 2023

Food

News for Foodies 09.21.23

Oktoberfest returns to Rowdy Hall, Ruby Murray’s delivers, pop-ups at Rosie’s, “Two Jews Making Food” go on the road, football at Corey Creek on Sundays.

Sep 20, 2023

Jim Lubetkin Takes the Cake

Jim Lubetkin, an Amagansett resident, received eight awards in the baking competition at the Great New York State Fair in Syracuse, which concluded on Sept. 2. 

Sep 14, 2023

Happy Challah Days Are Here

Hope Kramer’s popular Twisted Challah Bakery offers not only the traditional loaf but sweet and savory varieties ranging from jalapeno-and-cheddar to pecan-praline and double-chocolate.

Sep 14, 2023